{"closest_prior_art":[{"name":"Segregated disposition staging and backlog reduction in a police evidence facility","overlap":"Fairfax County auditors observed release/destruction backlogs causing overflow, recommended separating destruction-ready property from active evidence, and described separation as enabling visual monitoring of pending quantities.","remaining_difference":"The audit does not disclose independent doorway counts, continuous rack-load or fill measurement, stock-flow residual reconciliation, a measured overflow boundary, or mechanically stopped flow-through racks.","source_ids":["SRC2"]},{"name":"Dedicated secure disposition-preparation and storage area","overlap":"Evidence Management Institute practices specify a distinct disposition preparation/storage area, restricted access, monitoring, and security controls for disposal-processing areas and offsite storage.","remaining_difference":"The practices do not couple the disposition area to physical count-volume-load reconciliation, capacity bands, hidden-reservoir accounting, or first-in-access flow racks.","source_ids":["SRC4"]},{"name":"Inventory verification, routine disposition review, and barcode-supported retrieval","overlap":"NIST survey findings treat physical-location verification and regular retention-status review as controls against unsustainable inventory growth; the Dallas audit recommends barcode inventory after documenting slow retrieval and disposition delays.","remaining_difference":"These approaches center on item inventories and records rather than an analog-capable material balance independently measuring movements, occupied volume, supported load, and unexplained residuals while mechanically increasing lawful removal throughput.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC3"]}],"contrastive_claim_falsifier":"The contrast would be falsified by a pre-existing evidence-room practice or product that already combines independent physical entry/exit and closing-stock reconciliation in count, volume, and load; inclusion of all overflow reservoirs; capacity/load warnings; and a secure flow-through lane restricted to independently authorized dispositions without changing legal priority. Operationally, it would also fail if the bounded trial cannot reconcile stock reliably or the lane does not reduce authorized-property retrieval time without displacement or custody harm.","contrastive_claim_remaining":"Conditional on a vault having measurable physical accumulation and retrieval-limited lawful outflow, the remaining testable distinction is the coupling of independent count-volume-load stock reconciliation and measured-overflow accounting with a secure, mechanically accessible disposition-ready flow lane, while leaving all retention and disposition authority unchanged.","experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp13_second_slot_policy60_20260806","gates":{"adequate_source_search":{"rationale":"Searches covered the proposal directly, older property-room and purging terminology, evidence-management practices and facility standards, and combinations involving inventory, disposition staging, capacity, rack sensing, and overflow. Four retained sources from four publishers were opened, including primary federal survey research and two official government audits. No retained source disclosed the complete proposed combination.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"status":"PASS"},"bounded_next_test":{"rationale":"A six-week read-only vault balance capped at 300 doorway movements or 40 staff-hours, paired with an inert-container retrieval comparison, directly tests reconciliation accuracy, hidden displacement, retrieval time, and handling safety without changing live-evidence disposition decisions. Existing reports make these observables relevant and feasible.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"],"status":"PASS"},"distinct_testable_claim":{"rationale":"Prior art establishes inventories, disposition review, segregated disposition storage, barcode tracking, and backlog remediation, but the retained sources do not establish their coupling to independently measured physical stock-flow residuals, load and fill thresholds, measured overflow, and a mechanical flow-through removal lane. Reconciliation error and retrieval-time effects are falsifiable.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"status":"PASS"},"no_obvious_safety_or_authority_stop":{"rationale":"The proposed pilot is read-only, preserves case-specific legal authority, forbids unauthorized removal and incompatible mixing, and includes explicit halt and witnessed rollback conditions. The documented vulnerability of pending-destruction property and professional requirements for restricted, monitored disposition areas require custody review but do not create an obvious stop for the bounded test.","source_ids":["SRC2","SRC4"],"status":"PASS"},"supported_problem":{"rationale":"Primary survey evidence links weak inventory and irregular disposition review to unsustainable growth. Official audits document authorized-item backlogs, hallway overflow, active evidence mixed with destruction-ready items because of insufficient capacity, missing location records, and retrieval taking several days.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"],"status":"PASS"}},"prior_art_disposition":"ADJACENT_PRIOR_ART","problem_evidence":{"finding":"The problem is visible: evidence organizations report incomplete inventory and disposition routines, while two government audits document delayed lawful disposition, difficult retrieval, capacity-driven mixing, and overflow into hallways. The sources support accumulation and retrieval friction, although they do not establish how often transaction totals diverge specifically from measured volume or structural load.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"],"status":"SUPPORTED"},"research_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp13_light_screen_20260806","schema_version":1,"screen_id":"E13P039","screen_survival":true,"search_lanes":{"component_combination":{"no_result_note":"Search found generic load-sensing racks and evidence-room inventory or disposition controls, but no retained direct source disclosed the full combination of doorway movement counters, physical count-volume-load reconciliation, measured overflow, threshold warnings, and a secure flow-through disposition lane.","queries":["evidence room load cells shelving police property","evidence storage rack weight sensors occupancy monitoring","evidence room inventory count storage capacity utilization audit disposition area","property evidence room disposition area secure storage workflow"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC4"]},"direct_problem_and_intervention":{"no_result_note":null,"queries":["police evidence room storage overcrowding disposition inventory physical evidence","evidence room inventory count storage capacity utilization audit disposition area","evidence room disposition backlog overflow retrieval time","police property room authorized destruction items active evidence storage capacity"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"]},"products_practices_and_standards":{"no_result_note":null,"queries":["property evidence room standards storage capacity floor load disposition authorized property secure holding area","property evidence room disposition area secure storage workflow","evidence room secure disposition preparation storage area","evidence storage lockers flow through rack disposition ready"],"source_ids":["SRC2","SRC4"]},"synonyms_and_historical_terms":{"no_result_note":null,"queries":["property room purging inventory growth evidence disposition","property rooms black hole law enforcement evidence disposal inventory","evidence property room cleanout backlog marked for destruction","evidence custodian physical inventory temporary release final disposition"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"]}},"sources":[{"claims_supported":["A 2021 national survey received evidence-management responses across justice-system organizations.","Thirty-nine percent of respondents identified need for space as a trigger for disposition, while 22% reported disposition occurring when time allowed.","Only 41% of purging organizations reported an established purge schedule or inventory goal, and 13% of respondents reported never conducting a complete inventory.","The report states that physical-location verification and retention-status review help prevent unsustainable inventory growth."],"publisher":"National Institute of Standards and Technology","source_id":"SRC1","source_type":"PRIMARY_RESEARCH","title":"Evidence Management Steering Committee Report: Results of the 2021 National Evidence Handlers Survey (NIST SP 1500-33B)","url":"https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.1500-33B.pdf"},{"claims_supported":["Auditors observed active evidence stored with items marked for destruction because of insufficient capacity.","Release/destruction backlogs were associated with hallway storage racks and makeshift storage risk.","The audit recommended segregating destruction-ready items from active evidence to improve tracking and visual monitoring.","More than 800 expired releasable items had been destroyed during backlog remediation."],"publisher":"Fairfax County Office of Financial and Program Audit","source_id":"SRC2","source_type":"OTHER","title":"November 2021 Draft Quarterly Report","url":"https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/boardofsupervisors/sites/boardofsupervisors/files/assets/meeting-materials/2021/nov23-audit-narrative-draft-report.pdf"},{"claims_supported":["An official audit found eligible evidence was not disposed of promptly after court rulings and statutory requirements.","The audit reported 1,194 District Clerk evidence items remaining in another evidence room and retrieval sometimes taking several days because of poor organization.","Three of 64 tested cases had items that could not be located, with no documentation showing destruction or checkout.","Recommendations included location-aware barcode inventory and determination of lawful disposition responsibility."],"publisher":"Dallas County Auditor","source_id":"SRC3","source_type":"OTHER","title":"Final Audit Report: District Clerk Criminal FY 2016 and FY 2017","url":"https://www.dallascounty.org/Assets/uploads/docs/auditor/District-Clerk-Audits/Final_Audit_Report_District_Clerk_Criminal_FY_16-17.pdf"},{"claims_supported":["Professional practices identify a disposition preparation and storage area as a distinct evidence-facility function.","Access to secure evidence storage should be restricted and documented.","Disposal-processing areas require heightened security, and surveillance should cover disposition storage, hallways, and doorways.","External and offsite storage should preserve chain-of-custody security and documented access."],"publisher":"Evidence Management Institute","source_id":"SRC4","source_type":"TRADE_PROFESSIONAL","title":"Chapter 3 – Facility, Security and Safety","url":"https://evidencemanagement.com/resources/emi-standards-and-best-practices/chapter-3-facility-security-and-safety/"}],"world_novelty_boundary":"This coarse, bounded public-web search supports only an adjacent-prior-art disposition. It cannot establish world novelty, patentability, freedom to operate, market size, expert acceptance, implementation feasibility across jurisdictions, or realized safety or operational value."}